Kangchenjunga In Need Of Practical Action

A vulnerable snow leopard does not know where the Kangchenjunga Conservation Area ends. One leopard tracked in the Eastern Himalaya used a home range of up to 2,600 square kilometres, with movements extending into Sikkim, India. Wildlife and people therefore use a landscape larger than any single conservation boundary. The proposed Kangchenjunga Biosphere Reserve faces a practical challenge: its map must match how humans and wildlife actually use the landscape.